Does Your Organic Garden Soil Look Like This?
When you’ve been organic gardening for a few seasons or more your soil will become more and more nutrient rich and teeming with micro organisms. That is providing you keep adding organic material to you vegetable garden. Otherwise you will quickly deplete your soil of it’s goodness and create nutrient deficiencies.
You can see in this photo (taken a few days ago) that the soil I’m growing my veggies in is just gorgeous. Deep, rich, dark soil. Of course it didn’t start out that way. It’s taken some time to get it this way. The basic thing though is just to keep adding organic matter.
The bare section you see in the photo has just been seeded with carrots, onions and turnips. The lovely little soldiers in the background are broad beans, coming on nicely. To the left are silverbeet, leeks and strawberries (yes, we’re still getting a few strawberries mid winter, but the millipedes get most of them).
If you want to learn more about creating your own compost, take a look at my website and sign up for your free composting guide in my Go Organic Club newsletter.
Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…
Julie
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on July 19th, 2008
I read about your article in your website. I posted my garden photoes on following website http://www.green-house.tv/photo/photo/show?id=1359573%3APhoto%3A23939. I also growing som eof the beggies but yet to try on tomatoes species. I tried carrots, onion, kale, brassica rapa, kangkung (a vegetable commonly in SEA South East Asia country), and cabbage etc. I harvested my garden corns produce 3 times so far. Its nice to see your posted photoes on the websites. Good work.